'Avoid the temptation to regulate,' Google tells Commons committee

Google Inc.’s Canadian policy counsel, Jacob Glick, told the Commons heritage committee Tuesday that policy makers should not encourage Canadian content rules and other regulations on the Internet. Glick said the Internet is a "good news" story, and acknowledged that its innovation presents challenges to many of today’s content distributors, producers, and providers. He warned policy makers not “roll back the clock.”
“You will be asked to roll back the clock on some of this innovation, because of the challenges it presents,” he told committee members.
Glick encouraged members to consider whether they are being asked to solve broad problems or simply the problem “that an existing business model has in the new world.”
Glick appeared before the heritage committee as part of its study on new media in Canada.